Primary Recipient

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE

Amount

$403,767.00

Award Date

9/23/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The overall objective set forth in the currently funded project was to study the role of the heme oxygenase (HO) system in regulating the corneal inflammatory and repair response. This was based on preliminary studies showing that the HO system is highly